Well, it's hard to describe, but standing at the front of your car, looking at the engine, to the left of the plastic engine cover there is a line that runs down the side to the turbo. About half way down there is a gitting to connect the lines and that is where is is leaking from.

Each time I have been told it is a bad gasket. The first 2 times I didn't question it, not I seriously question it.

I can tell it is at it's early stages because I still have good boost in the turbo, but once it gets bad I will loose pressure.

Chas, you are more than welcome to take a looksie if you want to get together before next Monday.

As for severity, this is not a severe problem, the leak only occurs from using the turbo and since it is a tight fitting not much can leak out unless the engine is running for a long time with the turbo being used regularly.

Jay, you should ask the service writer, or better yet the service manager, to have a closer look at this than just handing off to a mechanic to fix it yet again. I would start to question the turbo itself some. Maybe the surface area that the gasket has to seal against isn't flat and therefore eventually leaks. Something is not right. This isn't a common problem amounst the 1.8T engines. it is specific to your car. That means something isn't right. And just continually changing a gasket isn't the answer. They're not dealing with the root cause of all this.